Rust Engineer - FinTech

About the Role

Develop and maintain the core services of a trading platform, focusing on market connectivity, real-time data processing, and order routing. Build reliable, concurrent applications and collaborate closely with the infrastructure team to ensure stable and efficient production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Rust Development: Develop and maintain production services in Rust for market data processing, exchange connectivity, and order routing.
• Backend Architecture: Design concurrent, event-driven systems that handle message ordering, retries, reconnections, and failure recovery.
• System Integration: Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management.
• Performance Optimisation: Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput, and resource utilisation.
• Testing & Reliability: Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour, and investigate production issues.
• Technical Collaboration: Work with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution, and production support.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: At least 3 years of experience in backend development, systems engineering, or a similar software engineering role.
• Rust: Hands-on experience developing applications in Rust, including async programming, concurrency, and error handling.
• Backend & Networking: Good understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Problem-Solving: Experience debugging applications, analysing performance, and writing reliable, maintainable code.
• Working Style: Independent, responsible, and structured, with an emphasis on testing, documentation, and production stability.
• Communication: Strong English communication skills. German and experience with financial trading systems are advantages.

Benefits

• Technical Ownership: Take responsibility for core trading services used by institutional financial clients.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with Rust and develop services where reliability, concurrency, and performance are essential.
• Greenfield Development: Build new components and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
• Engineering Development: Help establish and develop the engineering function in Zurich.
• International Collaboration: Work closely with experienced software and infrastructure engineers across different locations.
• Direct Involvement: Join a small engineering team with short decision-making processes and direct influence on technical solutions.